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February 19, 2007, Monday

In a way, it's a shame that so much of David Brock's ''Blinded by the Right: The conscience of an ex-conservative'' is about the private lives of our self-appointed moral guardians. Those tales will sell books, but they may obscure the important...

The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked along party lines today on the selection of Theodore B. Olson to be solicitor general, with Democratic opponents complaining that Mr. Olson had earlier misled the committee about his involvement in...

Versions of the same question were put today to both Kenneth W. Starr, the independent counsel, and the financial backers of Paula Corbin Jones: Did they have any ties to Richard Mellon Scaife? In the view of some White House aides, Mr. Scaife,...

In December 1993, Richard Mellon Scaife, a reclusive multimillionaire and benefactor of many conservative causes, began subsidizing a large-scale effort at The American Spectator magazine to unearth damaging information about President Clinton. By...

As Kenneth Starr surely knows, the Office of the Independent Counsel was created to remove real or perceived conflicts of interest in the pursuit of high-level criminal investigations. Now there are fresh allegations that a key witness in Mr. Starr's...

The Justice Department told Kenneth W. Starr, the Whitewater prosecutor, today that one of his principal witnesses against President Clinton should be investigated to determine whether he was tainted by payments from Clinton opponents. Eric H....